Cardiovascular Clinical Studies

This channel includes news and new technology innovations from cardiovascular clinical trials. These clinical studies include all cardiac subspecialties.

Annalise.ai and Nuance announced that the global medical imaging AI company has joined the Nuance Precision Imaging Network (PIN), connecting Annalise.ai workflow orchestration and diagnostic support solutions to over 12,000 healthcare facilities worldwide.

News | ECG

HeartSciences and Rutgers University Announce Multi-Year Collaboration to Develop AI-based ECG Algorithms

December 1, 2022 — Heart Test Laboratories, Inc. d/b/a HeartSciences, a medical technology company focused on saving ...

December 01, 2022

A team led by UTHealth Houston's K. Lance Gould, MD, (center) used PET imaging technology (shown above) to map coronary blood flow and its outcomes among heart disease patients. (Photo by UTHealth Houston)

News | PET Imaging

PET Technology More Effective Than Angiogram at Determining Need for Coronary Stents, Bypass Surgery

December 1, 2022 — A new method for determining whether patients with heart disease need coronary stents or bypass ...

December 01, 2022

Boston Scientific Corporation has announced the first results from the ACURATE neo2 Post Market Clinical Follow-up (PMCF) study evaluating the performance of the ACURATE neo2TM Aortic Valve System.

News | Structural Heart

Late-Breaking Post-Market Study Data Reinforce Clinical Procedural Success and Safety of the ACURATE neo2 Aortic Valve System

November 30, 2022 — Boston Scientific Corporation has announced the first results from the ACURATE neo2 Post Market ...

November 30, 2022

News | Structural Heart

Medtronic’s Next-Gen Evolut FX TAVR System Shows Significant Improvement in Commissure Alignment in Real World Setting

November 30, 2022 — Medtronic’s newest generation self-expanding, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) system ...

November 30, 2022

BIOTRONIK announced their presentation of the one-year results from the investigator-initiated BIOPACT RCT this week

News | Drug-Eluting Balloons

One-Year BIOPACT Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Results Demonstrate Excellent Results for Low-Profile Passeo-18 Lux DCB

November 28, 2022 – BIOTRONIK announced the presentation of one-year results from the investigator ...

November 28, 2022

Left: Echocardiogram at birth shows severe non-delamination of the tricuspid valve septal leaflet, with coaptation point near the right ventricle apex (marked with arrow). The right ventricle is small, while the right atrium is large. Right: Jaxon’s echocardiogram today shows a normal tricuspid valve position (marked with arrow) and normal sizes of the right atrium and right ventricle.

News | Pediatric Cardiology

From Severe Ebstein Anomaly to a Normal Heart

November 25, 2022 — Jodie Votava-Smith, MD, has pulled up two side-by-side echocardiograms on her computer screen and ...

November 25, 2022

Nicholas Pajewski, Ph.D., associate professor of biostatistics and data science at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. Credit: Wake Forest University School of Medicine

News | Hypertension

Study Highlights Importance of Long-term Management of Hypertension

November 23, 2022 — In 2015, published findings from the landmark Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) sh ...

November 23, 2022

Survivors face higher risk of cardiac events that can reduce their life expectancy by decades

News | Pediatric Cardiology

Exercise Testing Detects Silent Cardiovascular Dangers Common in Pediatric Cancer Survivors

November 23, 2022 — Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) can detect underlying early signs of cardiovascular problems ...

November 23, 2022

New research by Cedars-Sinai investigators supports evidence that social factors, such as unemployment, financial difficulties, racial discrimination and other stressors, affect an individual's health. Getty Images

News | Stroke

Racism, Stress and Stroke Outcomes

November 22, 2022 — investigators from the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai have new information on stroke-relate ...

November 22, 2022

Trial Evaluates FDA-Designated Breakthrough Therapy for Patients Who Lack Treatment Options

News | Heart Failure

Impulse Dynamics Announces First Patient Enrolled in AIM HIGHer — Implantable Device Trial to Treat Heart Failure in Higher EF Population

November 22, 2022 — Impulse Dynamics, a global medical device company dedicated to improving the lives of people with ...

November 22, 2022

Successfully Met Primary and Secondary Endpoints, with Mean Placebo-Adjusted Reduction in Systolic Blood Pressure of 9.7 mmHg in Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertensive Subjects at 50 mg Once Daily (p=0.01 vs. placebo)

News | Hypertension

Mineralys Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Phase 2 Data for MLS-101 in the Target-HTN Trial Evaluating the Treatment of Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension

November 21, 2022 — Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc., a private, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to ...

November 21, 2022

Artificial intelligence can improve diagnosis and treatment for patients, but first the AI-enabled clinical tools have to be easily available and used.

News | Artificial Intelligence

High adopters of AI-enabled screening tool are more likely to diagnose left ventricular dysfunction than low adopters, Mayo Clinic study finds

November 21, 2022 — Artificial intelligence can improve diagnosis and treatment for patients, but first the AI-enabled ...

November 21, 2022

News | Hypertension

Mineralys Therapeutics Announces Positive Topline Phase 2 Data for MLS-101 in the Target-HTN Trial Evaluating the Treatment of Uncontrolled and Resistant Hypertension

November 21, 2022 — Mineralys Therapeutics, Inc., a private, clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company committed to ...

November 21, 2022

Justin Balko, PharmD, PhD, Ingram Associate Professor of Cancer Research, and a co-corresponding author of the study. Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center

News | Heart Failure

Cardiac antigen identified as mechanism for heart complication with immunotherapy-related myocarditis

November 22, 2022 — Myocarditis is a complication that can occur in cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint ...

November 21, 2022

Figure 1. Flow chart of machine learning workflow. A machine learning (ML) model for the prediction of vessel-specific ischemia was built, trained, and tuned in the NXT trial (Analysis of Coronary Blood Flow using CT Angiography: Next Steps). The model’s predictive performance was evaluated in the PACIFIC trial (Prospective Comparison of Cardiac Positron Emission Tomography [PET]/Computed Tomography [CT]‚ Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography [SPECT]/CT Perfusion Imaging and CT Coronary Angiography wit

News | Computed Tomography (CT)

AI Tool Predicts Reduced Blood Flow to the Heart

November 17, 2022 — Cedars-Sinai investigators and colleagues have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that ...

November 17, 2022